Sen. Mike Lee renews call to eliminate TSA

Indiana man pardoned by Trump is fatally shot during traffic stop

The Associated Press  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 9:12 p.m.  |  Save Story

An Indiana man was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop, just days after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.

Utah daughter of Holocaust survivor shares parents' story of survival

Brian Carlson, KSL-TV  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 8:43 p.m.  |  Save Story

A Jewish Utah woman, whose parents survived one of the worst concentration camps of World War II, shared what it was like for them.

Get Gephardt helps Bountiful man who says phone company won't repair landline

Matt Gephardt and Sloan Schrage, KSL-TV  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 8:20 p.m.  |  Save Story

A Bountiful man contacted KSL's Matt Gephardt after struggling to get his landline repaired.

Southern Utah 6th grader named 'Kindest Kid in America'

Jeff Richards, St. George News  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 7:49 p.m.  |  Save Story

Whitlee Holt, a sixth grade student at Enterprise Elementary, was proclaimed the "Kindest Kid in America" during a schoolwide assembly this past week.

Rescue crews save teens who fell through ice in Ogden

Cassidy Wixom, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 7:17 p.m.  |  Save Story

Rescue crews saved two teens who fell through the ice while fishing at a pond in Ogden on Monday evening.

Bill aims to prevent unlicensed life coaches from practicing mental health therapy

Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 7:07 p.m.  |  Save Story

Utah lawmakers are considering a bill to strengthen "guardrails" around the scope of who can practice mental health therapies and crack down on life coaches engaging in conversion therapy.

Rain moves through Southern California, dousing fires but without causing serious mudslides

Christopher Weber, Associated Press  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 5:49 p.m.  |  Save Story

Rain mostly moved out of Southern California on Monday after the first significant storm of the season brought weekend downpours that aided firefighters without causing serious mudslides.

Garfield County Commission decides against renaming highway after Trump

Cassidy Wixom, KSL.com  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 5:40 p.m.  |  Save Story

The Garfield County Commission has voted against adding President Donald Trump's name to a local scenic highway.

Lawmaker: Kids need more sandlot ballgames, skinned knees and unstructured play

Jason Swensen, Deseret News  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 5:33 p.m.  |  Save Story

State Sen. Lincoln Fillmore is sponsoring a legislative resolution that encourages parents, schools and local governments to adopt "practices that promote child independence."

Eastbound state Route 201 reopens following gravel spill near Magna

Logan Stefanich, KSL.com  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 5:26 p.m.  |  Save Story

A gravel spill on state Route 201 closed eastbound lanes near Magna for a couple of hours on Monday afternoon.

Trump fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith, Fox News reports

Jasper Ward, Reuters  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 5:07 p.m.  |  Save Story

The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's cases against President Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, Fox News reported on Monday.

Utah pool contractor accused of fraud faces new criminal charge

Pat Reavy, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 4:47 p.m.  |  Save Story

Investigators say they have identified another victim of a Utah swimming pool contractor accused of taking large down payments but not completing the work.

Salt Lake City warns residents about unpaid parking ticket scam

Carter Williams, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 3:39 p.m.  |  Save Story

Salt Lake City officials are warning residents about a growing nationwide parking ticket scam that has reached Utah's capital.

Have You Seen This? New Yorkers hoping to get whiff of 'rotten corpse' flower

Pat Reavy, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 3:31 p.m.  |  Save Story

A bloom of a flower known as the 'corpse flower' in New York has attracted huge crowds hoping to get a glimpse and sniff of the rare event.

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American Lung Association encourages all Utahns to test their homes for radon

Utahradon.org  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 3:00 p.m.  |  Save Story

January is National Radon Action Month, and there is no better time to learn from the American Lung Association and UtahRadon.org about how you can protect yourself and your family from a potentially life-threatening illness.

Did BYU basketball turn a corner after good week in Big 12 play?

Sean Walker, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 2:57 p.m.  |  Save Story

It was anything but an absolutely terrible, no good, very bad week for the Cougars, who earned their first true road win late Tuesday night at Colorado and turned around to collective their first Big 12 winning streak Saturday against the Bearcats.

Colombia avoids trade war with US as business community, citizens call for cooler heads

Oliver Griffin and Luis Jaime Acosta  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 2:12 p.m.  |  Save Story

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights.

Securing water from out of state will be a 'Herculean' effort, Utah's water agent says

Carter Williams, KSL.com  |  Posted Jan. 27 - 2:08 p.m.  |  Save Story

Utah's water agent told lawmakers that efforts to secure water deals outside of the state are underway, but he warns it will be easier said than done.

Trump establishes council to review federal disaster response agency

Ted Hesson, Reuters  |  Updated Jan. 27 - 1:46 p.m.  |  Save Story

President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, stopping short of instant action to shut or reshape the country's lead disaster response agency.